450 Using Illustrator’s Shape Builder tool

- In this movie I'll show you how to use…the Shape Builder Tool inside Illustrator…and just in case you're interested…this project comes to us from my Illustrator CC 2015…one on one fundamentals course.…Good news, however, is that the Shape Builder…works inside CS5 and CS6 as well.…The only difference is that nowadays you can drag free form,…in those versions of the software you have…to drag in straight lines.…Now unlike the Join Tool we saw in the previous movie,…which is designed to work with Open Path Outlines…the Shape Builder is designed to work…with Closed Paths and filled Open Paths.…

And it allows you to merge basic shapes together…in order to create more complex ones.…So for example, let's say I want to combine this star…along with this rectangle to create a magic wand,…then I would click on one and Shift click on the other…with the black arrow tool.…They have to be selected, by the way.…And then you drop down to the Shape Builder Tool…which is midway down the tool box.…Now if you're not seeing this tool then click…